Jeremiah 36:5

¹Moreover the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still locked up in the court of the guard, saying,

²Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem. Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

²³Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

³⁶Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

⁴Now, behold, I release you today from the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don’t. Behold, all the land is before you. Where it seems good and right to you to go, go there.”

²⁰for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

¹⁵The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

²⁸So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

²Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the LORD’s house.

⁹in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.